EmilyDickinson4thpd

Biographical Information

• Father was United States Congressman/Lawyer
• Born Mamherst, Massachusetts
• Went to school from 1834-1847
• Starting writing in 1850
• Never married

Important Historical Events

• 1850 compromise - north and south established a couple of free states(slavery)

Style

• Doesn't fear death
• Thoughtful/Meaningful
• Dashes
• Title is first line of poem
• Metaphor/personification
• Morbid
• Random/Purposeful capitalization
• Symbolism
• Death/Life
• Slant rhyme
• Rhyming quatrains

Important Poems
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
"Heart, We Will Forget Him"
"I'm Nobody! Who are you?"

Other Pertinent Information
*Wrote 1,700 poems

• Wrote about great power, questions the nature of immortality and death

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